Founders Doom in CT, Why is the cost so high?!

It certainly sounds like your distributor is hosing you and your customers on a limited release. I'm sure they will say "oops, pricing error, sorry" after Founders says something.

 

bottle cost is $10.49 FYI. Normal mark up would be $13.49-13.99 at the most. You got seriously shafted my friend

 

ouch.



I paid $11.99.

 

Tell you what... pay me in NEBCo beers and I'll stand by the DOOM wearing a John "Hannibal" Smith worthy disguise and tell them it's the distributor's doing.

 

I would also love to know why. I wonder if they're just setting the price based off of Boltcutter. I paid $22 at a shop which never price gouges and the store said they only priced it a buck or two over cost.

 

My packy in Storrs is also charging $21. He said his cost was $15+. I bought 2 4pks of Double Trouble instead for barely much more. 8 beers for $23 or 2? Not a hard choice

 

12.99 at multiple stores near me

 

I spoke with ewhitford and we compared our prices from distributors. I am in a different county and we paid much much less for the case so this is definitely a case of the distributor messing with the price or a mistake on the invoice.

 

A Connecticut distributor playing games - I'm shocked!! ... It's still amazing Stone' Enjoy by made it in stores before the expiration date!

 

haha very true my friend! only about 3 weeks before the date tho, as usual with stone products here.

 

Bought a Doom at a store last week for $12.99. Went to the same store today to pick a few other beers and the price was now $21. Tell me how that works?

 

There clearly were mistakes made on invoices. If you paid $12.99 or whatever consider it an early Christmas present. That's well below the true intended cost.

 

Frangelic was also 12.99-13.99 here

 

$12.99 is a great price but that doesn't explain the $20+ others are seeing. Looking at prices around $14-17 seems reasonable. More appears to be gouging at some level. How is there that much disparity out there in the state? Interested to see the response from Founders.

 

MSRP was $12.99

 

Yesterday I found one bottle on the shelf at Grand Wine & Spirits in Groton for $23.99, which I purchased. Today I stopped in Ocean State Liquor in Westerly, RI just to grab some wine. I dont expect much in the way of craft beer from this store, yet they had at least 10 bottles of Doom on a shelf marked at $13.99. I felt like I was the victim of extreme price gouging on behalf of Grand.

 

Normal beer mark up would for what i got was 13.99, which means 14.99-16.99 i feel would be fine to price at, also my case cost was $126 for 12, meaning your distributor is screwing you guys or mad a terrible clerical error.

 

Hopped over the border yesterday, and DeCicco's has them for $17, and they're known to be a bit pricey. Another store in NY had 6+ on the shelves for $13.99.